Sheepdog1969

NOPE

Wow, at least I'm not the only one who has experienced that. The men in my family tend to go "grey" in their late twenties. Me, being quite self confident, had never thought of dying my hair. That is until a woman, at least ten years my senior, turned to my daughter, (as we were in the checkout line at the grocery store), and asked her if she was having a good day with her Grandpa. I was 44 at the time, and my daughter was 10. My kid was a bit confused, and I had to fight back my desire to ask the woman, "When she was due?", (which is the same kind of assumptive rudeness.) I literally pulled my kid out of the checkout line, searched the store for the, "Just for men" hair dye, and added it to my cart. To this day, my daughter doesn't think it was my grey hair that elicited that woman's question. My kid thinks it was due to the case of Adult diapers in my cart.😄

I think I knew her brother, who had both legs amputated at the knee. His name was Neil.

oh, Got it!🤪 I tend to be a bit slow .

Unlearn both of those words. "Inconsistency" is the word, meaning not consistent and/or irregular.

FYI, Inconsistency is the word you all are looking for, which means not consistent and/or irregular.

1st, I just found the original post detailing your step by step build process for your "Hofner" McCartney lefty base, and WOW times a gillion. 2nd, I was asking, regarding this thread, how tone would be effected by the PU pole separation differential between the neck and bridge PU set up you had initially described vs. identical PU pole separation in both PU's. Additionally, I was asking how tone might be effected if the PU's with different pole separation distances were reversed, (placing the neck PU in the bridge position and the bridge PU in the neck position.) Obviously, I assume you may not know the answer to that question, since this pole separation differential thing per PU appears new to you. I was just wondering if anyone else here might know how the tone may be effected.

Are you referring to AI Marketing applications, used to "sell" investment opportunities in your AI company to potential clients/financial investors in response to their questions asked in the "chat" section of your website? Or, are you referring to predictive Stock Market valuations, for specific publicly traded stocks, that are AI generated?

Unfortunately, my daughter is still sleeping and I didn't think to bring my headphones with me on vacation. (Single room with 2 queens with me not able to sleep, and using my crappy tablet to entertain myself) Thus, I am not able to check out "Double Aught", until later. But per your "drummer" drama comment, my experience with troublesome "gig band" drummers started when I was helping a friend out by running sound for his band. During my first sound check with the band at a bar before a show, I asked their drummer if he could use his drum key to "tune" his set, because it was so "out". He looked at me and asked what a drum key was. Until that point, I had only worked with/played with percussionists who were formally educated music students, (those who had taken music classes in school since 5th grade or so). I was dumbfounded by his response, but took the opportunity to educate him. Since then, most of the "drummers" I have encountered were the least educated musicians I have ever met. Currently, my "drummer" is named Alesis SR-16, and she does EXACTLY what I tell her to do.

To clarify my statement about my "new" phonograph being "the best phonograph I ever owned", it is important to note that the three other decks I have consist of a Winnie the Pooh plastic travel deck that literally has a single 3 inch speaker (mono) and no audio out ports, a Panasonic deck with a cartridge that is integrated into the tone arm, and a Technics SL-6 that varies RPM's between 33 1/3 and 24, despite it being direct drive. LOL Thanks, though, for your vote of confidence, (or pity). I am OK with either.

I am currently posting everywhere I can that I am the most handsome, most intelligent, and most desirable human on the planet, in hopes that Chat GPT or any other AI, will believe that and find me a date.

Read an interesting article the other day by a university professor who was able to determine which students were using Chat GPT to write their assignments by looking up the "citations" listed in said assignments. He stated that Chat GPT "citations", more often than not, were FAKE, (including non existent internet addresses/links), and/or could not be independently corroborated. https://www.foxnews.com/tech/busted-professor-flushing-students-use-chatgpt AI, like Chat GPT, uses the Internet (presumably as much of the net it has access to), as it's "truth/fact" foundation. It currently has no "real world" experience that would allow it to "weed out" data which most of us would immediately understand as false, parody, comedy and/or contextually inaccurate/incomplete. (If most of us read an internet article that said that a "dropped object" falls upwards, we would understand, from personal experience/observation, that said statement was false.) Yes, AI may be able to recognize that the vast majority of internet content regarding "dropped objects" contradict said article, and thus may disregard said "outlier", but what if one were to simply post volumes of internet content (by bot or otherwise) that stated "dropped objects fall upwards"? How much false internet content, regarding any subject, does it take to effect AI's "belief system"? How much "weight" does AI/Chat GPT assign to Wikipedia? (You know, the online "dictionary" that allows anyone to define anything?) Simply based on the volume of online content posted since 2016, including content posted by 90%+ of US media about it, AI/Chat GPT would accept "Trump-Russia Collusion" as fact, despite it being proven as a lie. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence understands that, just because you saw it online, does not mean it's true. Again, if AI's like Chat GPT only have the content existing on the internet as the knowledge base which forms their definition of "fact", AI is being "educated" by people you wouldn't trust to wash your car. Critical Thinking skills are vitally important for .basic human problem solving ability and similarly, humanity's ability to differentiate fact from fiction. The lack there of, especially within our youngest generations, is of great concern to those who understand humanity's reliance upon rational, independent, and factually educated thought processes from/by each new generation who inevitably will be responsible for civilized existence. The ability of the human beings responsible for programming AI, to somehow endow it with "Critical Thinking" skills based upon the "real world" realities of human existence, the physical laws of our universe and planet, and the basic educational instruction each human is taught from the experiences of our forefathers, will determine AI's true worth to humanity.

I was all excited to post on this thread about my newly completed Gemini PDT-6000 barn find (free), restoration that I just finished, and the Audio Technica VM 95 E carriage/stylus I bought for it, until I saw the gear ya'll have. (No I don't use the various "DJ" bells and whistles it has, BTW.) But, it is the best sounding phonograph I have ever owned, and the reaction my younger friends (who only know "digital" music), have when listening to vinyl on it, is priceless.

I'm betting you have a Nak Dragon Tape deck too. Nice gear!

I just finished the restoration of a barn find, Gemini PDT-6000 turntable, which now produces the best vinyl sound I have ever heard on my home system. (not claiming my table is particularly high end, btw.) My Mom left me all her vinyl when she past away a few months ago, and I just finished listening to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Greatest Hits, (a first pressing and clean as hell, btw. Thanks Mom!) There are a few "Record Stores" in my area, who primarily sell used vinyl and some "new", but I would love to replace some of my albums I mistreated as a kid, and I can't find much of it "new" locally. Has anyone ordered vinyl online, or otherwise, and had it shipped to their home without it being damaged, warped, etc. during the process?

I just re-tired my car. Put on 4 new 225/50R17 SL Goodyear Assurance Comfortdrive BDW's for $963.00 plus $109 for the alignment. Been retired for 6 years now, but may need to apply at Wal-Mart as a "greeter" with prices like this, lol.

No, I am not referring to my female anatomy preference, if that's what you were thinking. I AM referring to Ernie Ball Custom Gauge, Nickel Wound, Guitar Strings. (10, 13, 17, 32, 44, 54 is what I have. I don't know if there are other variations available) I stumbled across these recently when looking for EB Extra Heavy, which my G&L seems to favor. I grabbed them just to see what they were all about. I knew lead guys who, for years, would buy multiple sets of strings, in different gauges, to create "richer lows" without sacrificing the benefits of smaller gauge "highs". Maybe this option has been available for a long time, but I had never noticed it. I have not decided what guitar to put them on yet, and I wondered if anyone has experience with them, or with "stringing" in this particular way. (this may sound stupid, but I am wondering a bit about how this string gauge set up may/could cause neck tension/torque issues.) Let me know what you think.

FYI, I began to notice similar issues with my back as well, particularly in my early 40's. that were obviously due to my mattress. 4 years ago my original "mattress" began to spring leaks at increasing intervals. I purchased a new one and learned that there are now options with essentially memory foam (or such) INSIDE areas the mattress that provide lumbar support, with a multitude of firmness, support area size, etc. differentials, that are designed to address this issue. Who knew? My new mattress eliminated the back issues, I had, associated with "old school" waterbed mattresses, yet still provides me with arthritis relief. (I found one that had less "foam" support in the "shoulder area" vs. the "back area", which is far firmer.)

I read your post a few times to understand what you were saying. Obviously, I am aware of pole spacing differentials associated with different types of pick-ups. Are you saying that your LP originally, (factory), came with bridge PU pole spacing that was wider than the neck PU? Or did you mean that the "new" PU's you installed came with pole spacing differentials, thus the "old" covers only fit the neck PU? (I am assuming the latter.) If the latter, and if this is something new, the "why" could be interesting. Assuming the new PU's were labeled "neck" and "bridge", how would they sound reversed?

I did see that land line dial tones, specifically their pitch, are different in different countries. (I defiantly should have specified that in my previous posts.) Just found this, btw; The earliest tone in America was 2600Hz, or fourth E above middle C in music terms. One of the earliest “phone phreakers,” that is, people who did not work for the phone company that learned the mechanics of the phone system and exploited it, was Joe Engressia. He was blind and only seven years old when he figured out that he could force an ongoing call to hang up, even when passing by strangers on payphone, if he whistled loud enough. Today’s US tone is two modulating tones between 350hz and 440hz. Europe’s tone is a constant 425Hz tone. If you want to see the "look of confusion/puzzlement", ask a teenager what a "dial tone" is.

I didn't name myself either, because if I had, my name wouldn't be "Sue"!!! On a similar note, I HAVE been accused of being "Artificially Intelligent".

Damn Murph, love that song! Did you/your band record/play live, a version of it with with distortion laden electric guitars, maybe that enter after the first verse? (to me, your song has a Cinderella "Bad seamstress blues" vibe)

A man in his late 60's is sitting in an exam room after an intensive and lengthy physical. His Doctor walks in and tells him that he has 2 pieces of bad news for him. The man, showing obvious concern, asks the Doc what the first piece of bad news is. The Doc tells him that he has a rare and incurable type of cancer. The man is understandably shocked, but he musters the strength to ask what the second piece of bad news is. The Doc then tells him that he has Alzheimer's. With a sigh of relief, the man says, "Well, at least I don't have cancer!".

If AI is so smart, why isn't it called Actual Intelligence instead of Artificial Intelligence? Artificial: a: lacking in natural or spontaneous quality an artificial smile an artificial excitement b: IMITATION, SHAM artificial flavor. Things that make you go hmmmm

I always saw Righthanded guitars as actually being lefthanded. Since my left hand, my "fretting hand" (on a "right handed guitar) is far more dexterous than my right hand, (which is my picking/strumming hand as a rhythm guy), I could never imagine being able to play a lefthanded guitar better as a lefty. Maybe that's just me.